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The Hintz Family of Woedtke
As seen above in a clipping sent to us by Klaus Dieter Kreplin, the Hintz family lived in Woedtke, Kreis Griefenberg, Pomerania from at least the early 1600's forward. Johann Ferdinand Hintz of Woedtke, born in 1819, and his wife Fredericke Bischof, left Pommern for Wisconsin in 1868 with their children Bertha, Pauline, Wilhemine and Ferdinand. In 1870, Bertha Hintz married Heinrich Johann Ziemer in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Several branches of the Hintz family of Woedtke lived in Kreis Greifenberg, Hinterpommern (the area of Pomerania just east of the Oder River, now a part of Poland.) Many members of this family emigrated to the U.S. Visit the following page for an overview of the ancestors of the Hintz, Hinz and Hintze families:
The descendants of Erdmann Hintz, who was deaf and dumb from the time of his youth.
The genealogies done in the area of Kreis Greifenberg by Pastor Bauer of Goerke included several for the Hintz family. As the family grew from 1600 into the 19th century, the spelling changed for some branches of the family to "Hinz" and "Hintze." Pastor Bauer's work is posted on these pages:
Hinz family of Woedtke (family of Gustav Hinz)
Hintze family of Klatkow: record to 1935
Hintz family record published in Treptow, 1936
In April 2000, descendants of the Hintz-Ziemer family of Brookfield visited Kreis Greifenberg. There, they found the sites where their family members were born, baptized, married and buried for over 400 years. A short overview of the trip to Pommern is available on the pages listed below:
Goerke and Woedtke: Our first day in Pommern
Woedtke family crest in stained glass, and the manor house today (April, 2000)
My Woedtke (see Hintz page below for further information)
Klatkow, Greifenberg, Pommern, church photographs, April, 2000
Maps link for Klatkow, Wefelow, Borntin, and other Pommern villages
"Gott mit dir!" Woedtke, Pommern
More pictures of Woedtke, Kreis Greifenberg
View some church records for Woedtke and Goerke
Fredericke Bischof's family lived near the village of Sellin, Kreis Greifenberg in 1850. Some of her family members attended church there. Fredericke is buried in Wauwatosa Cemetery, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, along with her husband Johann Ferdinand Hintz and some young infant children of her son Ferdinand and his wife Katherine Paul.
My favorite place in Pommern: The church at Sellin
Fredericke Bischof Hintz, great great grandmother of the four Ziemer descendants who toured Kreis Greifenberg in April, 2000, acted as a godmother in the church at Sellin, near Treptow, about the time her daughter Bertha was born in 1859. Here is the marker of
the grave of one of the Sellin Church pastors, Gustav Adolf Kuhle, as that marker appeared during the Ziemer family trip in 2000.
The family of Johann and Fredericke Bischof Hintz lived in Gumtow, Pommern, about 1860. It was in Gumtow that their son Ferdinand was born. (The village called "Zevlin" in these church records is the village of "Zedlin," below.)
View some church records for Gumtow and the surrounding towns of Zapplin, Zevlin and Voigtshagen.
View more information about Bertha Hintz Ziemer's family with details about her brother Ferdinand Hintz:
In 1945 and shortly thereafter, Kreis Greifenberg was ethnically cleansed. Polish refugees displaced during World War II were forcibly resettled into the family places of the Hintz and Bischof ancestors. Landmarks, including burial places, often were raided for valuables. In some places, however, grave markers remained when the Hintz - Ziemer descendants visited . Along with our Polish guide, the Hintz - Ziemer descendants crawled through deep brush to uncover metal crosses engraved with the names of the dead of Zedlin and the surrounding area. The information from each cross was copied whenever possible and all copied information is posted below.
A view of the abandoned German cemetery at Zedlin, Kreis Greifenberg, April 2000
Cemetery records from Zedlin, Pommern, copied from the monuments in April, 2000.
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